The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 45
The next day, as soon as it was light, Big Lion marched straight for the lake, and all the other beasts followed him.
Who acts: water, Big Lion, other beasts · What happens: be, march, follow · To what, where: lion
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, Big Lion, other beasts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 light | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 soon | advmod |
| 6 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 light | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 light | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 light | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 light | cop |
| 10 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 marched | punct |
| 12 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Lion | compound |
| 13 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 marched | nsubj |
| 14 | marched | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 light | conj |
| 15 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 14 marched | advmod |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 lake | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lake | det |
| 18 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 marched | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 followed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 followed | cc |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 beasts | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 beasts | det |
| 23 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 beasts | amod |
| 24 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 followed | nsubj |
| 25 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 light | advcl |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 followed | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 light | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | water | day | light, soon property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | march | past | Big Lion | for the lake; straight property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | follow | past | all other beasts | lion | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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